tjs282
Stone \ Cold / Fish
"Yea, and verily did the pRNGods smile upon the fledgling Portuguese nation, blessing their soldiers with great fortune in battle*. And lo, the peasants did rejoice at the glad tidings of smited enemies, and did fruitfully multiply..."
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Well, I ain't dead yet...
To my dismay, my southern neighbour initially wanted no part of my war. Despite that, my opening gambit (as planned in the post above) was successful -- and once the first northen town (the major objective) came under my control, the southerners joined in on my side after all (at enormous expense) -- I assume because the loss of my northern neighbour's Iron+Dyes had broken a deal between them. This was confirmed much later: for the last couple of turns of this session, my southern neighbour has sent no more Iron-bearing units north -- nor mounted units either, implying that they lost their Horse-import as well.
My northern neighbour has suffered disproportionate losses to my forces (both in terms of raw units, and even more so in shields invested), and has been willing to talk peace for many turns now. However, so far he has only offered cash, nothing more useful, so I've rebuffed his advances, because I am waiting for the MA+RoP-deal with the southern Civ to expire first. I'm frankly surprised that they haven't broken it themselves already (maybe they like my gold too much), and I hope that I can hold on long enough to end the deal honorably (needs 4T more as of the last save), because I got ambitious, and lost several units I would rather not have lost, as a result of foolishly overextending myself. Time will tell whether this will cost me in the long run. The other reason I hope to end the deal honorably is so that I can replace it with a straight RoP, allowing my neighbours to continue fighting until they're exhausted, while I play 'fill-in-the-gaps' as AI-towns get captured/razed.
I've already started on that: several new towns have been planted during this war, expanding my empire's boundaries northwards (and I want to get at least one more down before signing a PT) -- I have even got to the point of being able to build my FP (a newly Settled town has just started doing that). My empire is now fairly thoroughly ICS'd, so that I can gradually disband the intermediates later, and go to CxxxC -- but these intermediates are currently among the largest/ most productive towns that I have, so I can't afford to shrink/abandon them yet. Also, I will need to build 'Ducts nearly everywhere, so I am strongly considering going Feudal until I can own my Continent, then switching to Republic as soon as enough basic improvements (CHs, Ducts, Libs, Markets) have been built/whipped.
But to do that, I'll have to extract Feudalism (and Republic) from someone(s)...
Turns 135-143
Turns 144-153
The world as of 380 AD:
*Footnote:
Spoiler :
Well, I ain't dead yet...
To my dismay, my southern neighbour initially wanted no part of my war. Despite that, my opening gambit (as planned in the post above) was successful -- and once the first northen town (the major objective) came under my control, the southerners joined in on my side after all (at enormous expense) -- I assume because the loss of my northern neighbour's Iron+Dyes had broken a deal between them. This was confirmed much later: for the last couple of turns of this session, my southern neighbour has sent no more Iron-bearing units north -- nor mounted units either, implying that they lost their Horse-import as well.
My northern neighbour has suffered disproportionate losses to my forces (both in terms of raw units, and even more so in shields invested), and has been willing to talk peace for many turns now. However, so far he has only offered cash, nothing more useful, so I've rebuffed his advances, because I am waiting for the MA+RoP-deal with the southern Civ to expire first. I'm frankly surprised that they haven't broken it themselves already (maybe they like my gold too much), and I hope that I can hold on long enough to end the deal honorably (needs 4T more as of the last save), because I got ambitious, and lost several units I would rather not have lost, as a result of foolishly overextending myself. Time will tell whether this will cost me in the long run. The other reason I hope to end the deal honorably is so that I can replace it with a straight RoP, allowing my neighbours to continue fighting until they're exhausted, while I play 'fill-in-the-gaps' as AI-towns get captured/razed.
I've already started on that: several new towns have been planted during this war, expanding my empire's boundaries northwards (and I want to get at least one more down before signing a PT) -- I have even got to the point of being able to build my FP (a newly Settled town has just started doing that). My empire is now fairly thoroughly ICS'd, so that I can gradually disband the intermediates later, and go to CxxxC -- but these intermediates are currently among the largest/ most productive towns that I have, so I can't afford to shrink/abandon them yet. Also, I will need to build 'Ducts nearly everywhere, so I am strongly considering going Feudal until I can own my Continent, then switching to Republic as soon as enough basic improvements (CHs, Ducts, Libs, Markets) have been built/whipped.
But to do that, I'll have to extract Feudalism (and Republic) from someone(s)...
Turns 135-143
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